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Any success with saline only and no meds?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 17, 2025 | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
Glad to hear your story.
My journey, first showings of something had changed in my system, began approximately in 2017 and finally diagnosed in 2022 with BE. Diagnosed with MAI in 2023. I did not start the antibiotics as suggested in 2024 and have not had, so far, an exacerbation and feel well. I do the 7% saline two to three times a day, the postural drainage, air way clearance techniques and huff coughing. I do have a good deal of mucus that I clear with using the saline and then it comes up to the throat all day long, especially after eating and I clear nearly all the time with the feeling of mucus in my throat.
My question to you is, do you have the same, much mucus when doing the saline and then the feeling of mucus in the throat and the need to clear all during the day?
Barbara
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I will cough up mucus throughout the day unless I am vigilant, nebulizing with 7%, using the aerobika, doing back and side percussion (my husband was “trained” by the respiratory therapist), huff coughing and postural drainage. Yes - all of it. My technique has improved over the 6 years since I stopped taking the Big 3 and rely on airway clearance to stay well.
If I do all of that until there is nothing left to cough up, I don’t usually cough again until the next time I nebulize. I nebulize twice a day but I often do the whole routine once a day. Even so, it is exhausting and takes over a hour and some days I simply don’t have the energy or will to do it.